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Introduction To Project Management
Introduction To Project Management
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Understand the growing need for better project management, especially for information technology projects Explain what a project is and provide examples of information technology projects Describe what project management is and discuss key elements of the project management framework
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Discuss how project management relates to other disciplines Understand the history of project management Describe the project management profession, including recent trends in project management research, certification, and software products
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*PMI, The PMI Project Management Fact Book, Second Edition, 2001
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What Is a Project?
A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to accomplish a unique product or service (PMBOK Guide 2000, p. 4) Attributes of projects
unique purpose temporary require resources, often from various areas should have a primary sponsor and/or customer involve uncertainty
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Samples of IT Projects
Northwest Airlines developed a new reservation system called ResNet (see case study on companion Web site at www.course.com/mis/schwalbe) Many organizations upgrade hardware, software, and networks via projects Organizations develop new software or enhance existing systems to perform many business functions Note: IT projects refers to projects involving hardware, software, and networks
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It is the project managers duty to balance these three often competing goals
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The 2001 Standish Group Report Showed Decided Improvement in Project Success Time overruns significantly decreased to 163% compared to 222% Cost overruns were down to 145% compared to 189% Required features and functions were up to 67% compared to 61% 78,000 U.S. projects were successful compared to 28,000 28% of IT projects succeeded compared to 16%
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*The Project Management Institute (PMI) is an international professional society. Their web site is www.pmi.org.
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Project Stakeholders
Stakeholders are the people involved in or affected by project activities Stakeholders include
the project sponsor and project team support staff customers users suppliers opponents to the project
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The WBS is on the left, and each tasks start and finish date are shown on the right using a calendar timescale. Early Gantt Charts, first used in 1917, were drawn by hand.
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Each box is a project task from the WBS. Arrows show dependencies between tasks. The bolded tasks are on the critical path. If any tasks on the critical path take longer than planned, the whole project will slip unless something is done. Network diagrams were first used in 1958 on the Navy Polaris project, before project management software was available.
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In recent years, organizations have been taking advantage of software to help manage their projects throughout the enterprise.
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Project 2002 now includes a separate version for enterprise project management (see Appendix A for details on Project 2002)
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